MLA CITATION GUIDE for print and multimedia sources
[Please check the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed., 2003) R808/M689 for more complete information. To cite online sources see the MLA CITATION GUIDE FOR ONLINE SOURCES handout.] BOOK: Single author Works Cited List— Tannen, Deborah. Gender and Discourse. New York: Oxford UP, 1994. (Parenthetical documentation) Tannen has argued this point (178-85). This point has already been argued (Tannen 178-85). Works Cited List— BOOK: Two or more author/editors Jakobson, Roman, and Linda R. Waugh. The Sound Shape of Language. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1979. (Parenthetical documentation) Among intentional spoonerisms, the “punlike metathesis of distinctive features may serve to weld together etymologically unrelated but close in their sound and meaning” (Jakobson and Waugh 304). Works Cited List— Lauter, Paul, et al., eds. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Lexington: Heath, 1994. (Parenthetical documentation) The anthology by Lauter and his coeditors contains Stowe’s “Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl” (2425-33). [Note: When a work has three or more authors/editors, give their names in the same order as on the title page, or you may name only the first name and add et al. (“and others”).] BOOK: No author or editor Works Cited List— Report of the President’s Commisssion on Campus Unrest. New York: Arno, 1970. (Parenthetical documentation) A presidential commission reported in 1970 that recent campus protests had focused on “racial injustice, war, and the university itself” (Report 3). ARTICLE: In an edited book Works Cited List— Allen, Anita L. “Privacy in Health Care.” Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Ed. Warren T. Reich. Rev. ed. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan-Simon, 1995. (Parenthetical documentation) U.S. Supreme Court decisions of the 1960s and 1970s have popularized the presupposition of decisional privacy rights (Allen 2066).
ARTICLE: Entry in an encyclopedia
Works Cited List—SIGNED ARTICLE Mohanty, Jitendra M. “Indian Philosophy.” The New Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropedia. 15th ed. 1991. (Parenthetical documentation) Mohanty discusses the Brahmanic doctrines of karma and moksa as they were retained in the development of Buddhism (184). Works Cited List—UNSIGNED ARTICLE “Mandarin.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed. (Parenthetical documentation) The nine grades of mandarins were “distinguished by the color of the button on the hats of office” (“Mandarin”).
ARTICLE: Newspaper
Works Cited List— Manning, Anita. “Curriculum Battles from Left and Right.” USA Today 2 Mar. 1994: 5D. Works Cited List—EDITORIAL “Death of a Writer.” Editorial. New York Times 20 Apr. 1994, late ed.: A18. (Parenthetical documentation) A New York Times editorial called Ralph Ellison “a writer of universal reach” (“Death”).
ARTICLE: Journal or Magazine
Works Cited List—JOURNAL Vickery, Laurie. “The Politics of Abuse: The Traumatized Child in Toni Morrison and Marguerite Duras.” Mosaic 29.2 (1996): 91-109. Works Cited List—MAGAZINE “Decade of the Spy.” Newsweek 7 Mar. 1994: 26-27. (Parenthetical documentation) International espionage was as prevalent as ever in the 1990s (“Decade”).
VIDEORECORDING
Works Cited List— Language Development. Dir. Helen Stavely-Taylor. Prod. Uniview Productions. Videocassette. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1995. (Parenthetical documentation) Theories such as the Wharf-Sappier Hypothesis are discussed (Language).
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